Product Description

A captivating new saga set in Liverpool and Ireland, from the bestselling author of DAYS OF HOPE and FAR FROM HOME

Angela O'Rourke is six when her parents hand her over to an aunt and uncle in a distant village. It's a common practice for large, hard-up families in 1950s Ireland, but for Angela it means that her mother and father don't love her any more. Still, she's well cared for till she's sixteen, when her uncle starts to take too much of an interest in her. Moving to Liverpool in the early 1960s, she becomes a success in the world of fashion design. The pain of a disastrous love affair sends her home to Ireland just after the death of her aunt: and there, among old papers, Angela makes an astonishing discovery. As she learns the truth about the past, a brighter new future beckons.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16639 in Books
• Published on: 2009-09-17
• Binding: Paperback
• 448 pages

About the Author
Lyn Andrews was born and raised in Liverpool. She is the author of many novels, one of which was shortlisted for the RNA Romantic Novel of the Year Award; her last few novels have all been Sunday Times Top Ten bestsellers.

Customer Reviews

Tedious Journey!
A very poor book. Slow, prosy style with far too much unimportant detail about what people are wearing and reading and listening to in a clumsy attempt to (it seems to me) prove how much the writer knows about the sixties. Conversations don't really help to move the story along, they just sit there tediously amd I found myself wondering why some things had been included at all, since they contributed nothing to the story. The plot idea and Angela's circumstances have great promise - a girl from a destitute family in rural Ireland in the fifties, given away to her aunt, victim of an attempt at abuse by her uncele, at 16 moves to Liverpool and later discovers truths she hadn't imagined. I was really disappointed that the book doesn't deliver the good read that could have been possible with more lively writing.